adding subtitles and leaving dd 5.1 audio?

[kaoticone]

hi, I'm no newbie to video editing, but am to ffmpegx. Basically, I have an avi and the subtitles are in a text file, is it possibly to use ffmpegx to somehow embed or merge the subtitles to the video so that I can burn it to dvd and retain subtitles? The second part of my questions is this: the avi contains dolby digital 5. audio(ac3), I'd like to keep this audio exactly as it is, is that possible? I tried deselecting the encode audio option, but then the summary shows no audio, does that mean that no audio will be included? Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our ffmpegX section.

[Case]

I have an avi and the subtitles are in a text file, is it possibly to use ffmpegx to somehow embed or merge the subtitles to the video so that I can burn it to dvd and retain subtitles?

Yes you can. A procedure is described on http://www.ffmpegx.com/dvd_sub.html

The second part of my questions is this: the avi contains dolby digital 5. audio(ac3), I'd like to keep this audio exactly as it is, is that possible?

Try the Passthrough option. (If that fails, set audio to AC3 with the same parameters as the source (bitrate, sampling rate, number of channels, bitrate mode).)

I tried deselecting the encode audio option, but then the summary shows no audio, does that mean that no audio will be included?

De-selecting 'encode audio' will prevent the audio from being included in the output file.

[kaoticone]

great, but the link for the subtitles gives a 404 not found error.